Taiki Sekine, a Japanese baseball player for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, updated his X (formerly Twitter) account on August 15th to report that his request for the disclosure of information regarding defamatory comments directed at him had been granted.
The request was made through a lawyer to X Corp. It targeted posts directed at Sekine containing words like “Die,” “Trash,” and “Disappear.” All eight posts that were subject to the request were successfully recognised for disclosure.
Find Taiki Sekine’s post [@toho8daiki] here.
Regarding this disclosure request, Sekine commented, “I would like to ask that there be no defamatory remarks towards the individuals behind the accounts that made these posts. Instead, I hope you can join me in raising awareness to eliminate such defamatory comments.”
The disclosure request refers to the “petition for an order to disclose sender information.” When defamation or slander occurs on the internet, this is a legal procedure in which the victim petitions the court to order the disclosure of the sender’s name and address from the provider or social media operator, in order to identify the perpetrator. If the petition is granted, the court can issue an order for the disclosure of the sender’s information. This procedure was newly established by the amendment to Japan’s Provider Liability Limitation Act, which came into effect on October 1, 2022.
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